Daniel and all:
I am not convinced those single dots always indicated use of the right-hand
index finger. From the early prints of Spinacino on=2C I think the alternating
dots were just a way of keeping track of strong-weak beats in a long run of
tablature ciphers. We have seen that ornamentation signs meant different
things to different printers and copyists=2C it should come as no surprise that
fingering dots served different functions.
Lute News Number 81 (April 2007) contains a transcription of a talk given by
Bob Barto on the use of the right-hand ring finger in the music of Weiss. He
seems to have drawn no conclusions but offers several interesting ideas.
On the subject of fingerstyle guitarists=2C Doc Watson=2C Merle Travis=2C Etta
Baker=2C John Jackson and doubtless others all played (or in the case of Doc=2C
still play) with thumb and index finger. They seemed to do OK without
embracing the modern classical guitar technique of using the ring finger.
Best=2C
Ron Andrico
www.mignarda.com> Date: Tue=2C 22 Jul 2008 10:16:43 -0700> To:
[email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Piccinini's
rolls>
> That's not the only funny fingering he uses. > Toccata XX for liuto has index
> finger dots going > down to the 10 course in a bass run that finally > ends
> on the 12th course. Has anyone tried to play > it that way? I have also noted
> other ring finger > allergy cases- from the usual suspects of 17th > Century
> France to the late blues virtuoso > Reverend Gary Davis (OT alert! Guitar!).
> Even > Weiss eschews the ring finger in spots where I > would tend to use it-
> unfortunately unlearning > automatic ring finger usage is one thing I can't >
> do- even with early Renaissance thumb under=2C > planted pinky- but just four
> note chords in those > instances.> > > > -- > > > > To get on or off this
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